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Did people have better nutrition before agriculture?
A lot of proponents of new diets, e.g. Paleo, Primal, Atkins argue that grains have made people unhealthier and life expectancy was much better before the transition to agriculture.
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Who is responsible for the oldest known calendar?
What is the oldest known calendar? Where exactly was it developed? Who was responsible for its creation?
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What was the main diet of pre-agricultural Asians?
The modern Asian diet is based mostly around rice. Was rice a major part of the paleolithic Asian diet? Did they know how to process and eat rice before agriculture?
Aside from meats, what were other ...
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Have the current polar ice caps receded further than those that existed before the beginning of the last Ice Age?
Has science been able to determine from the geologic record how our current ice caps compare to those that existed before before the beginning of the last Ice Age? If so, how do they match up? (I ...
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Has the existence of a matriarchal society really been discredited?
I always thought that there was proof of the existence of matriarchal society in the ancient times but apparently, according to Wikipedia this hypothesis is mostly discredited today. Why?
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Are the Neanderthals a subspecies of Homo sapiens or not? [closed]
For some time, scientists have debated whether Neanderthals should be classified as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, the latter placing Neanderthals as a subspecies of Homo ...
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How do we derive information for civilizations from periods before record keeping? [closed]
Civilizations record their history, but how do we derive information for periods before record keeping started? How much do we know for that era of human civilization?
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How does Göbekli Tepe fit into the current picture of society development?
Göbekli Tepe is a huge archaeological site in Eastern Turkey, currently under excavation (make sure you click on "Pictures"). It is one of the oldest architectural complexes in the world, possibly the ...
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Megafauna extinctions
If you have read Jared Diamond's works, you already know the question.
There is a coincidence between planetary scale climate change, human settlement and megafauna extinctions. From giant kangaroos ...
